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One (Large) company in the UK years ago - "Our psychometric tests indicate that you are possibly a smoker and we are a no smoking organisation" Have never even
by xs83 10y ago
One (Large) company in the UK years ago - "Our psychometric tests indicate that you are possibly a smoker and we are a no smoking organisation"
Have never even held a cigarette in my life let alone smoked one
Tests included questions like "Johnny had a joint on Friday after work, is he OK to work on Monday?"
"Do you think smokers work to equal levels as their non-smoking employees"
and so on
Pretty sure this was illegal but I was young and had no idea so meh
- eon1 10y agoWow, that's.. disgusting. And also damaging to their own hiring practices, by the sound of it.
- CmdrSprinkles 10y agoPossibly illegal, but the mention of being younger makes me think this is less for a "real" tech job and more for a "normal" job or a code monkey position where you really just need semi-competent people who can fill seats and do a modicum of work. When I was younger I applied for a lot of jobs like that (supermarket, bookstore, data entry) and dealt with automated quizzes like that. None were quite that blatant, but even in my late teens I understood a lot of the questions were about risk assessment. So it stands to reason that a huge concern with this was keeping insurance premiums down.
- voycey 10y agoThey were pretty much all code monkey jobs, it would have been my third proper coding job and they were a software house so it was your average Java code shop. Either way it is still a "Real" tech job, just for an asshole company